Plants Talk Back!
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"Plants Talk Back!" is the result of a study by 6th grade digital art with earth science students at the Institute for Collaborative Education (I.C.E.) in NYC. The theme of their work is "Sustenance and Sustainability".
The students conducted a hands on scientific study of plant life by growing Lima beans. They grew two plants, a "control" plant and a second plant that they submitted to a "human" variable such as: nurturing with milk, talking to their subject, or allowing their subject to music.
In their Digital Art component the students imagined their plants having the ability to communicate with humans. The plants became anthropomorphic, expressing their basic sustenance and sustainability needs as well as desires, anxieties, reflections on humanity.
The human condition is paralleled in the lives of plants.
Please check them out (and think twice about how you treat and appreciate plants).
"Plants Talk Back!" is the result of a study by 6th grade digital art with earth science students at the Institute for Collaborative Education (I.C.E.) in NYC. The theme of their work is "Sustenance and Sustainability".
The students conducted a hands on scientific study of plant life by growing Lima beans. They grew two plants, a "control" plant and a second plant that they submitted to a "human" variable such as: nurturing with milk, talking to their subject, or allowing their subject to music.
In their Digital Art component the students imagined their plants having the ability to communicate with humans. The plants became anthropomorphic, expressing their basic sustenance and sustainability needs as well as desires, anxieties, reflections on humanity.
The human condition is paralleled in the lives of plants.
Please check them out (and think twice about how you treat and appreciate plants).
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